Fautor is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, in the subfamily Calliostomatinae ( of the family Calliostomatidae.MolluscaBase (2018). Fautor Iredale, 1924. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456413 on 2018-12-28Marshall, B. A. (2016). New species of Venustatrochus Powell, 1951 from New Zealand, and new species of Falsimargarita Powell, 1951 and a new genus of the Calliostomatidae from the southwest Pacific, with comments on some other calliostomatid genera (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36: 119-141.
Species Species within the genus Fautor include: Fautor boucheti (B. A. Marshall, 1995) Fautor chesterfieldensis (B. A. Marshall, 1995) Fautor chinglini S.-I Huang & I-F. Fu, 2022 Fautor comptus (A. Adams, 1855) Fautor consobrinus Powell, 1958 Fautor excultus Iredale, 1931 Fautor houbricki (B. A. Marshall, 1995) Fautor lepton (Vilvens, 2012) Fautor manesol (S.-I Huang & I-F. Fu, 2015) † Fautor marwicki (Finlay, 1923) Fautor metivieri (B. A. Marshall, 1995) Fautor monikae (Stratmann & Schwabe, 2007) Fautor necopinatus (B. A. Marshall, 1995) Fautor paradigmatus (B. A. Marshall, 1995) Fautor periglyptus (B. A. Marshall, 1995) Fautor richeri (B. A. Marshall, 1995) † Fautor temporemutatus (Finlay, 1924) Fautor vaubani (B. A. Marshall, 1995)
The following species were brought into synonymy: Fautor cheni Dong, 2002: synonym of Calliostoma cheni (Dong, 2002) Fautor kurodai Azuma, 1975: synonym of Calliostoma kurodai (Azuma, 1975) Fautor legrandi (Tenison Woods, 1876): synonym of Calliostoma legrandi (Tenison Woods, 1876) Fautor opalinus Kuroda & Habe, 1971: synonym of Calliostoma opalinum (Kuroda & Habe, 1971) (original combination) Fautor poupineli (Montrouzier, 1875): synonym of Dactylastele poupineli (Montrouzier, 1875) Fautor sagamiensis Ishida & Uchida, 1977: synonym of Calliostoma sagamiense (Ishida & Uchida, 1977)
References
Marshall, B. A. (2016). New species of Venustatrochus Powell, 1951 from New Zealand, and new species of Falsimargarita Powell, 1951 and a new genus of the Calliostomatidae from the southwest Pacific, with comments on some other calliostomatid genera (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36: 119–141.
External links
Iredale, T. (1924). Results from Roy Bell's molluscan collections. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 49: 179-278